align-interface

Order grobs from top to bottom, left to right, right to left or bottom to top. For vertical alignments of staves, the break-system-details of the left NonMusicalPaperColumn may be set to tune vertical spacing Set alignment-extra-space to add extra space for staves. Set fixed-alignment-extra-space to force staves in PianoStaves further apart.

User settable properties:

align-dir (direction)

Which side to align? -1: left side, 0: around center of width, 1: right side.

axes (list)

list of axis numbers. In the case of alignment grobs, this should contain only one number.

forced-distance (dimension, in staff space)

A fixed distance between object reference points in an alignment.

padding (dimension, in staff space)

Add this much extra space between objects that are next to each other.

stacking-dir (direction)

Stack objects in which direction?

threshold (pair of numbers)

(min . max), where min and max are dimensions in staff space.

Internal properties:

elements (unknown)

list of grobs, type depending on the Grob where this is set in.

positioning-done (boolean)

Used to signal that a positioning element did its job. This ensures that a positioning is only done once.

This grob interface is used in the following graphical objects: BassFigureAlignment and VerticalAlignment